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Round One of the $12.4billion Primary Schools for the 21St Century announced - Tasmania
Blackman's Bay Primary School
4 May 2009
The Hon Julia Gillard MP: I’ll invite the Premier to join me
because we are here to make a what I think is a very good
announcement, a very exciting announcement so can I acknowledge the
Premier of Tasmania David Bartlett and also my ministerial education
colleague, the Deputy Premier who’s with us and my federal political
colleagues Julie Collins, Duncan Kerr and Catryna Bilyk. It’s
great that they’re all here.
Today we are here for an exciting announcement. Earlier this year
the Prime Minister announced that the Rudd Government would be investing $42
billion in a Nation Building and Jobs plan. The single biggest component of
that Nation Building and Jobs plan is investment in schools right around the
country.
The biggest component of the $14.7 billion Building the Education
Revolution plan is to put new learning spaces into primary schools like this
one. The new multi-purpose learning facilities that primary schools need,
libraries for the 21st century and new classrooms that meet new learning
needs of children today.
I’m very pleased today to be able to announce with the Premier of
Tasmania that the first 20 per cent of the Primary Schools for the 21st
Century Building the Education Revolution program projects have come to
Tasmania. Today I’m able to announce that we are investing almost $100
million in 51 primary schools around Tasmania including this one and I thank
you very much for having us here today.
Now this is the first found of our Primary Schools for the 21st Century
Program. There will be two further rounds and it’s a program to
benefit primary schools around the country. I look forward to continuing the
great partnership between us and the Tasmanian Government as we roll this
program out.
